Gasket and holder therefor.



No. 848,549. PATENTED MAR. 26, 190?. U. S. HAWLEY, F. O. GREEN, W. H. FULTON & J. P. MGELROY,

' GASKET AND HOLDER THEREFOR.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 3. 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFIQE.

ooENELL s. EAWL Y ANnFRziNois or NEW YORK, AND WILLIAM H. FULTON AND JAMES F. MoELROY, or ALBA NY, NEW YORK, ASSIGN- ORS TO CONSOLIDATED CAR HEATING COMPANY, OF ALBANY, YORK, A CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA.

NEW

I "GASKET AND HOLDER THEREFOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 26, 1907.

Application filed Noverriber 3, 1905. Serial N01 285,693.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, CORNELL S. HAW- LEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, New York; FRANCIS C.

5 GREEN, .a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, New York; WILLIAM H. FULTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Albany, county of Albany, State of New York, and JAMES F. I\ICELROY, a citi- Io zen of the United States, residing at Albany,"

county of Albany, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gaskets and Holders Therefor, of which. the following specification and accom- 1 5 panying drawings illustrate one form of the invention, which we now regard as the best .out of the various forms in which the invention. may be embodied.

This invention relates to the construction 20 of packing-gaskets and their attachment to a coupling member, such as a steam-hose coupler. For convenience we have hereinafter illustrated the Sewall type of straight-port hose-coupler.

The object is to provide a simple and cheap form of packing which may be more readily applied and removed than heretofore and which maybe cheaply manufactured in large quantities.

In the drawings we have shown three forms of gasket attachment, each illustrated on a separate sheet.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation .of a train-pipc-coupler part with a packing-gas- 35 ket constructed and. applied according to our invention. Fig. 2 represents a top plan view. Fig. 3 represents an end view. Fig. I 4 represents a detached face view of the gasket. Fig. represents a section -of the o gasket. Figs. 6 to 10, inclusive, represent views corresponding to the foregoing, showing a different formof the invention; and

Fig. 11 represents an edge view of the gasket in this form. Figs; 12 to 16, incl usive, repre- 5 sent views corresponding to Figs. 1 to 5 and showing a third form of the invention.

Referring to Figs. 1 t0 5, it will be seen that the gasket itself (represented separately in Figs. 4 and 5) is made in a convenient, cheap,

5 and dura e form by incasing an annulus 10,

of soft ru her under some compression, be-

tween two frusto,co1iical rings or short tubes 1. '1. 12, which may be easily s un or otherwise formed up out of sheet meta the rubber be ing allowed to project slightly beyond the rings at the narrower end of the gasket: to give a compressible bearing-surface. It should also preferably be at least flush at the wider end, so as to make atight joint with its seat on the coupler. By reason of the frusto conical form of the tubes, which are like nesting taper-rings, the rubber filling is compressed when the tubes are forced in opposite directions upon it. Ye do not wholly restrict ourselves to the bearing-face being of rubber, aswe mayadopt the method of attachment hereinafter described, but vary the form and material of the contacting face. The-outer ring 12 has a flange or web 13 in the plane of the gasket, with a substantially D-shaped outline and with two inelastic flexible lockinglugs 14 14 stamped out and adapted to be permanently deflected out of theplane of the flange. l5 is the coupler part of a form covered in copending application of J aines F. McElroy, Serial No. 198,285, and having the usual axial port 16 terminating at the transverse end face 17. In this face is formed an undercut channel 18 of U form, corresponding to the outline of the flange 13, and into this channel the gasket is adapted to be slipped by an edgewise movement, the lugs 14 being bent into recesses 19 in the floor of the channel to lock the gasket against removal edgewise or diametrically. The undercut channel edges or guides and the flaring of the gaskct lranie constitute tongue-and-groove connection preventing the dislodgnient of the gasket in an axial direction, and it is also held. against rotation. by 1,

reason of its form. Any reversal or other equivalent of the'undercut. guides may of course be substituted without departing from the invention. Thusthe gasket may be quickly applied, and when applied it becomes securelylodged against displacement. These reinforced gaskets are alsd of a better form for handling andnre better protected against tearing and abrasion thanheretofore.

When removed, they come away entire without laceration.

Figs. 6 to 11 show a modification which.

differs from the foregoing in, the form and connections of the locking-lugs. These flexible lugs 20 are included in the terminal edge of the flange '13 and when bent into locking position are lodged behind rigid lugs 21 on the floor of the channel or gasket-seat 18. Adjacent said lugs 21 the floor is cut away at 22 to form recesses and rests, whereby a screwdriver or other thin tool may be inserted beneath the flexible lugs 20 to pry them out from behind the lugs 21. This makes the gasket more readily removable than the form shown in. Figs. 1 to 5.

The third form of our invention (shown in Figs. to 15) and which we prefer on some accounts for actual use has a flexible locking-lug 23 on the advance edge of the flange 13, which is bent into a hole 24 traversing the root of the locking-wing 25, formed on the couplenbcdy. The locking-lug being within thev casting is protected from disturbance in regular use. By inserting a narrow instrument, such as a screwdriver, through the rear end of this hole the lug 23 may be bent out and released from its engagement to permit withdrawal of the gasket. the gasket this lug may be bent over into the hole by means of the same instrument.

It will be understood that we have merely illustrhted representative forms of 'the invention and have not attempted to show all the ways in which it may be embodied.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure byLetter-s Patent, is-

i. In combination, a coupling member and a gasket having a tongue-and-groove sliding connection on opposite edges and engaging by a diametric movement of the gasltet. I

' 2. In combination, a member formed with a port and with a gasket-channel transverse to said port and open at one end, and a gasket with opposite edges engaged by the walls of said channel and thereby held against axial displacement.

3. In combination, a coupling member having a port and a gasket-guide transverse .thereto, a gasket slidingly engaged with said guide, and means for holding said gasket against diametric sliding movement in said guide. 1

4. In combination, a coupling member having a portiand a gasket-channel. open at one side of the port to "permit diametric insertion and withdrawal of the gasket, and a gasket mounted in said channel and provided with an adjustable locking device engaging the coupling member for retaining the gasket against withdrawal. I i

5. A gasket having a flexible inelastic metallic lug adapted to be permanently bent into engagement with a complemental part pn a ported coupling member for interlocking'the gasket with said member.

5. A gasket comprising a compressible an-' In applying nulus, and a metallic reinforcement therefor formed with an inelastic flexible lug for attaching the gasket to a coupling member.

7. A 'asket comprising an annulus of soft materia combined with a reinforcing sheetmetal ring having an integral inelastic flexible lug for attaching the annulus to a coupling member.

8. In combination, a coupling member having a port, and a gasket connecting therewith by a sliding movement across said ort- -said guides and com rising a'compressible' annulus and an annu ar metallic reinforcement formed with a flange fitting the guides.

10. In combination, a V orted coupling member having undercut gas et-guides transverse to its port and a gasket slidingly mounted in said guides and composed of a soft annulus and an exterior tapered reinforcing-ring conforming to the undercut guides.

'11. A gasket comprising inner and outer frusto-conical rings, and acompressible 'annulus held between said rings.

1 12. A gasket comprising inner and outer ta ering rings and a compressible annulus he d between said rings and projectin beyond the same to form a yielding pac ingface.

13. A gasket comprising inner and outer tapering rings and a compressible annulus confined between the same and exposed at both ends to form yielding packing faces.

14. In combination, a coupling member having a channel, and a gasket slidably mounted in said channel and comprising a compressible portion, and a sheet-metal reinforcement therefor having a flange engaging the edges of the channel, and a flexible lug interlocking with the coupling member to prevent sliding movement of the gasket' 15. In combination, a con ling member having a channel With a su'ffstantially U- shaped undercut edge, and a gasket having a sheet-metal portion. with a U-sha ed edge slidingly engaged w' h the channe edge, a flexibletongue locking the gasket against sliding movement, and a rubber annulus mounted in said sheet-metal portion.

16. In combination, ,a ported coupling member formed'with a portion for engagement by a gasket-lug, and a gasket on saidmember having a flexible lug bent'into engagement with said portion for holding the gasket in place;

17. In combination, a orted coupling member having a gasket-channel transverse to its port, and a gasket slidingly mounted in said channel and having a flexiblelug be'nt into engagement with the coupling member for holding the gasket against diametric movement.

18. In combination, a ported coupling member having a gasket-channel transverse to its port and a lug-engaging portion adjacent to an open space, and a gasket mounted in said channel and having a flexible metallic lug engaging said portion and presenting a free end in said open space for engagement by a tool.

19. In combination, a coupling member havin a port and a gasket-channel open at one si e of the port, and aga'sket mounted in said channel and having a flexible lug bent into engagement with the coupling member on the opposite side of the port.

v 20. In combination, a coupler part having a port-face, a locking-wing alon side of sai port-face and an aperture forme in the body of the coupler part substantially at the root.

of said wing and extending through to the outer side othereof, and a removable gasketholder having an adjustable locking member which hooks over into said aperture.- In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands, before two subscribing witnesses, the 30th day of October, 1905.

CORNELL S. HAW'LEY.

FRANCIS C. GREEN. Witnesses to. Cornell S. Hawleys Francis C. Greens signatures:

CHARLES H. PooL, EDWARD KARL.

and

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands, before two subscribing witnesses, the 25th day of October, 1905. WILLIAM H. FULTON. JAMES F. MQELROY. Witnesses to William H. Fultons and James F. McElroys signatures? BEULAH CABLE, ERNEST D. JANsEN. 

